Tag: MLK Day January 19 2015

January 20, 2015 / Vickie Lester

The Hollywood Delegation, led by Charlton Heston and Julie and Harry Belafonte, crossing the Mall en route to the Lincoln Memorial, 1963. Photograph: Dan Budnik

January 19, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Archivist finds long-lost recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA | UCLA

Archivist finds long-lost recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA | UCLA. The timing of the speech is significant. King delivered it on April 27, 1965, one month and two days after the triumphant march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that is depicted so movingly in the new…

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January 19, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Photographer of the Civil Rights Movement, Charles Moore, captures a moment with MLK, Harry Belafonte, and Tony Bennett from Selma to Montgomery

There are common names associated with the civil rights movement, like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. And there are lesser-known names like Charles Moore. His photos, which often appeared in Life magazine in the 1960s, are the ones that put faces to a movement for most Americans. Via:…

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